Archive for March 2007

31 Mar 2007 1204H

A character that does not exist

I recently had to find a word that doesn’t seem to exist in my Cantonese character map or the larger Unicode one, so I had to make it up in Adobe Illustrator using Apple’s built-in character set. It’s this word:

Basically I took the radical from one word and the homonym on the right, then [...]

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31 Mar 2007 1017H

“Finishing the Game”

After Bruce Lee’s untimely death in 1973, he leaves behind a scant 12 minutes of footage for an upcoming film, to be called “Game of Death,” and the studio begins the search for a replacement to complete the film. That’s the premise of Justin Lin’s (Annapolis, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift) self-described comedy about denial, [...]

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30 Mar 2007 0906H

Some observations: iTunes’ “Complete My Album”; Banned In China

Well, this solves the question whether people still use the word, “album”: iTunes now offers you the chance to buy the rest of an album if you like the single(s) you’ve bought. But do I notice some price inflation for selected albums? For instance, Hoobastank’s the Reason, the feelgood album of the Summer of ‘05, [...]

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29 Mar 2007 1421H

I stepped back into 1920

as I always do when I step into the Scafuri Bakery at 1337 W. Taylor St. in Chicago’s Little Italy, a part of which was paved, as so often happens here in Chicago under the Daley administration, over the protests of the residents to make way for the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, [...]

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25 Mar 2007 2157H

And that’s a wrap for Galactica this year. . .

I sense the endgame approaching! I know the series has been renewed for another 22 episodes starting in January ‘08, with a two-hour movie scheduled for Autumn this year (you know, a little sump’n sump’n to keep the collection alive). I can’t imagine it going into season six, really: there’s not enough meat on those [...]

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21 Mar 2007 1800H

Notes on performing forms

There are many aspects to learning forms.
When you learn a form, it is like memorizing the lines of a poem or notes of a song.
You learn it maybe several words or notes, maybe one sentence or a phrase at a time.
When you have memorized the words and notes, now you have to [...]

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13 Mar 2007 2159H

Relearning forms

from memory after a year plus of no practicing is a beeyotch. Trying to get back into shape after a year plus off of no activity is even worse, been trying to follow last year’s 1500 cal plan my doctor prescribed, actually tracking what I eat every day, and for some odd reason, possibly due [...]

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11 Mar 2007 2300H

Chicago 2016: Montreal 1976 Redux?

I want to say something few people seem to have remembered in all the rush to get the Olympics to Chicago 2016.
It’s not that I don’t want it. It’s just that I don’t want to have to pay for them, considering how much we already pay in taxes to an incompetent government that constantly bungles [...]

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11 Mar 2007 1023H

Trib Chinatown restaurant recs, more in eats

Probably best located on the Chinese Chicago Historical Society website, but, Tribune food writer Monica Eng (who, if memory serves me correctly, is a descendant of the family that ran the Chicago restaurant House of Eng, a locally important pre-1965 restaurant) and my friend, ZJ Tong, former associate director of the Chicago Chinatown [...]

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10 Mar 2007 0713H

Bird York rocks

Two word review: sexy darkness. Go listen.

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